Displaced Vernaculars
Edwin and Willa Muir, Kafka, and the Languages of Modernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9856679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catriona Macleod (0009-0005-4281-9617, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-57 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2018.1396083 |
| OpenAlex | W2791977674 |
| Language | EN |
This article explores the contact zone between Kafka's multilingual modernism and the until now overlooked modernist language politics of his first translators into English and thus world literature, the Scottish couple Edwin and Wilhelmina (Willa) Muir. Addressing the Muirs' multilingual modernism, it discusses this worldly wordiness that emerges from lifelong patterns of displacement and that is deeply connected with the Muirs' vexed relationship with the English language and participation in Scottish modernist vernacular debates. Despite the Muirs' controversial decision to write in Standard English, however, vernacular fragments repeatedly surface in their works
Art · Art history · Displacement (psychology · English language · Linguistics · Literature · Modernism (music · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Vernacular · Franz Kafka Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |